Full name: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Author: John Allen Paulos Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780809058402 0809058405

Dozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mis-chosen mates, inappropriate drug-testing, and the allure of pseudo-science. Similar books: Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos Archimedes' Revenge by Paul Hoffman The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart Geekspeak by Graham Tattersall How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz by Edward B. Burger Mathematics by Timothy Gowers The Math Gene by Keith Devlin In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart Love and Math by Edward Frenkel by John Allen Paulos The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora